erland;495720 Wrote:
> What if you get an offer to replace all your Squeezebox devices to Sonos
> or some other competitor more or less for free.
Current stuff from Sonos? Meh, not interested...
Why? As much of a pain in the ass as it is for you, Pippin, kdf, Max
Spicer, etc, to write and maintain nifty plugins... That's what makes
the SB what it is.
>
> Is there any third party or Logitech developed feature in the current
> Squeezebox product that would make you refuse the switch ?
>
Mmmm... Radio... but Trackstat/Dynamic Playlists are way up there in
the must have.
>
> Is there any third party or Logitech developed feature that could be
> added to the Squeezebox that would make you refuse the switch ?
I would still refuse the switch...
I would like to see a proper API for plugins (a variety of 'hooks', for
example, much like drupal has, "customscan_hook_tagread" which would be
called whenever tags are read with the path to the file, a hash of tags
and whatever else was deemed necessary, allowing a 3rd party plugin to
have full access to the tags for its own use, perhaps even modifying
them.. a lot of hooks would be needed and some careful thought would
have to go into what to include).
xxx_{events} like 'stop', 'pause', and other control (whether web, sbc,
touch, buttons on boom/radio..) hooks, playlist_empty, _load, etc...
Of course, plugins wouldn't have to use or define all of these, just
those they would want to hook into. There should also be some
'priority' so a plugin like volumelock could insert itself before events
fired...
but you know far more about sbs plugins than I...
But it's always been about 3rd party plugins for me: the old 3rd party
last.fm/slimscrobbler, or Max's Random plugin that allowed me to exclude
'explicit' music at work, or your work...
These are the things that keep SBS leading edge for me: things that
perhaps not everyone wants or needs... but has great value to me.
Others may find LazySearch essential, or any of dozens of plugins.
Oh, yeah, and there needs to be more opening up of SqueezeOS.. A
certain amount of 'Demo' code should be made BSD or somesuch (GPL would
be fine too, I'd assume... since it's interpreted, it's not like source
code is hidden anyway..).
But is really is the Open nature of the server: as I said once before,
the plugins from 3rd parties are so useful that even Logitech uses
MusicInfoSCR on their marketing material. (And that's another plugin
that some people think is mandatory for their enjoyment.)
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